Take a look at the Ben Goldman’s video of our enchanted evening.

On October 26, 2019, at The Works - Upper Westside ATL, our art auction and magical masquerade explored our true natures through art, food and performance. The auction featured artwork from 200 of the best emerging and established artists from across the region, and many $100 fixed price artworks and one-of-a-kind masks. Plus...

A gravity-defying dance & soundscape by Fly on the Wall and OkCello
Interactive endurance painting performance by Amanda Grae Platner
Surreal and immersive inflatable world by LXXX YOU (Mike Stasny | George Long)
Tented speak-easy by Smith Hanes Studio
Illuminating moving sculptures by Carl Rainey
Interactive forest selling otherworldly masks by Julia Hill and tribe
Masked guests pose in ever-changing tableaux for surreal portraits by Eley
Red carpet back-drop by BlackCatTips

In advance of the big night, we encouraged people to get creative by offering some inspiration and two free Mask-Making Workshops - one with Mike Stasny and George Long at the Atlanta Contemporary and one with , Julia Hill at The Works which was in conjunction with our screening of Andy Warhol’s Empire, in partnership with Film Love and The Works.

The PRIVATE PREVIEW PARTY started at 6pm in our exclusive Ballard Designs VIP Lounge with complimentary drinks and a special selection of complimentary food from featured Chef Chris Hall of Local Three Kitchen & Bar. Sponsors, Patrons and VIP ticket holders had the first opportunity to purchase “$100 Works of Art,” preview the auction artwork, and meet exhibiting artists.

The SILENT ART AUCTION began at 7pm. All bidding was done online through Paddle8.

Chefs Duane Kulers of Supremo Guey and Maricela Vega of Chicomecóatl and 8ARM offered food for purchase throughout the evening.

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HONORARY AUCTION CHAIRS
Ruth West + Bob Wells

AUCTION CO-CHAIRS
Marianne Lambert + Anne Lambert Tracht

EVENT COMMITTEE
Erica DeChicchis + Elizabeth Feichter + Rachel K. Garceau + Bari Love + Andrès Navia + Karen Rolader + Woodie Wisebram

CURATORS/COORDINATORS
Jamie Badoud + Jessica Helfrecht + Emily Porter + Dayna Thacker + Christine Jason

HAMBIDGE BOARD of TRUSTEES
Cyndae Arrendale + Michael Bishop + Lucinda Chapman + George Cooke + Erica DeChicchis (Co-Chair) + Jesica Eames + Elizabeth Feichter (Co-Chair) + Rachel K. Garceau + Greg Head + Caroline Howell + Bari Love + Andrès Navia + Kirk Rich + Karen Rolader + Anne Lambert Tracht + Gregor Turk + Marcia Weber + Lucinda Bunnen (Trustee Emerita) + Helen Meadors (Trustee Emerita)

Our sincere thanks to all the artists who have given their time, energy & talent in support of Hambidge. All proceeds go toward Hambidge residencies for today’s brightest talents at our 600-acre creative sanctuary in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

AUCTION ARTISTS

Donors of Paintings, Pottery, Photography, Sculpture & more

Wood Adamson + Lisa Alembik + Ashley Anderson + Steven L. Anderson + Meg Aubrey + Jamaal Barber + Temme Barkin-Leeds + Rose M. Barron + Alisa Barry + Bonnie Beauchamp Cooke + Laura A. Bell + Lloyd Benjamin + Anne Berry + Daniel Biddy + Mitchell Biggio + Kimberly Binns + Christian Bradley West + Eileen Braun + Marc Brotherton + Lela Brunet + Caroline Bullock + Lucinda Bunnen + Craig Burkhalter + Betsy Cain + Jessica Caldas + Mandy Cano Villaobos + Philip Carpenter + Andrew Catanese + Jennifer Cawley + Merrilee Challiss + Alabama Chanin + Mel Chin + In Kyoung Chun + Susan Cipcic + Jermaine Clark + Madelin Coit + Paul Collins + Martha Cook + Cesar Cornejo + Margaret Curtis + Maggie Davis + Angela Davis Johnson + Dori DeCamillis + Elyse Defoor + Ellie Dent + Helen DeRamus + Crystal Desai + Brian Dettmer + Manty Dey + Patrick Di Rito + Michael Diffenderfer + Terri Dilling + Craig Dongoski + William Downs + Craig Drennen + Patty B. Driscoll + Eben Dunn + Didi Dunphy + Ruth Dusseault + Chris Dziejowski + Scott Eakin + Hannah Ehrlich + Sabre Esler + Amie Esslinger + Derek Faust + Benito “Yoyo” Ferro + Margaret Fletcher + John Folsom + Doug Foltz + Ruth Franklin + Coulter Fussell + Rachel K. Garceau + Shaniqua Gay + Rich Gere + Alex Gingrow + Jean C. Glenn + Karen Graffeo + Jim Graham + Laura Tanner Graham + Krista Grecco + Kojo Ayodele Griffin + Cora Grove + Joseph Guay + Joe Hadden + Matt Haffner + Linda Hall + Alison Hamil + Tom Haney + Lydia Harris + Dana Haugaard + Stephen Hawks + Jenny Henley + Isys Hennigar + Kelly Hider + Julia Hill + Dawn Holder + Lonnie Holley + Stephanie Howard + Caroline Howell + Lynne Huffer & Jennifer Yorke + Kristy Hughes + Tim Hunter + Rachel Ibarra + Henry Jacobs + Y. Malik Jalal + Christine Jason + Anna Jensen + JOEKINGATL + Benjamin Jones + Jeremiah Jossim + Sarah Kabot + Simone Kearney + Marcus Kenney + Susan Ker-seymer + Arianna Khmelniuk/Zapah_lab + David Kidd + Soo Kim + George King + Michael Klapthor + Cynthia Knapp + David Knox + Kathryn Kolb + Judy Morris Lampert + Tracey Lane + Jack Lawing + Michelle Laxalt + Mark Leibert + Carl Linstrum + George Long + Bari Love + Nick Madden + Barbara Mann + Forest McMullin + Michi Meko + Isobel Mills + Charmaine Minniefield + Donna Mintz + Katherine Mitchell + Marryam Moma + Lyn Sterling Montagne + Jiha Moon + Steve Morrison + Jason Murphy + Katie Ridley Murphy + Todd Murphy + Michael Murrell + Tracy Murrell + Greely Myatt + Sarah Nathaniel + Eleanor Neal + Dorothy O'Connor + W. Chester Old + Mary O’Malley + Adrienne Outlaw + Erin Palovick + Julia Paull + Melissa Payne Baker + Anastasia Pelias + Will Penny + Joseph Peragine + Allen Peterson + Jo A. Peterson + Jarred Pfeiffer + Alice Pixley Young + Lynn Pollard + Carl Rainey + Michael R. Reese + Brenda Rehrig + Seana Reilly + Chris Revelle + Leisa Rich + Susan Robert + Judith Robertson + Rana Rochat + Lars Roeder + Stacie U. Rose + Hasani Sahlehe + Nancy Sanders + Katherine Sandoz + Mark Schoon & Casey McGuire + Barbara Schreiber + Todd Schroeder + Michele Schuff + Karen Schwartz + Pallavi Sen + Corrina Sephora + Robert Sherer + Beth Shipley + Jerry Siegel + Joel Silverman + Scott Silvey + Kemachat Sirichanvimol + Erin Sledd + Vernon Smith + Alli Royce Soble + Lea Sobsey + Marcy Starz + Michael “Mike” Stasny + Elizabeth Stockton + Lauren Pallotta Stumberg + Thomas Swanston + Tommy Taylor + Sandy Teepen + Dayna Thacker + Constance Thalken + Zipporah Camille Thompson + Kathleen Thum + Katie Troisi + Gregor Turk + Lisa Tuttle + Zuzka Vaclavik + Shawn Vinson + Brittany M. Watkins + Charlie Watts + Matthew White + Martha Whittington + Barb Williams + Cori Williams + Ife Williams + Pandra Williams + Vanessa Brook Williams + Fabian Williams/Occasional Superstar + Catherine Wilmer + Susan “Susie” Winton + Ed Woodham + Jennifer Yorke

Our sincere thanks to all the artists who have given their time, energy & talent in support of Hambidge.

PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION PROJECTS

BlackCatTips
What the heck is a BlackCatTips? A BlackCatTips is a painter and muralist. A BlackCatTips is a poet and a thinker— a teller of tales. A BlackCatTips is Kyle Brooks, a streetfolk artist from way down in the American South. In addition to his studio and mural work, Brooks creates street poems and whimsical roadside art installations. With his brush, bright colors and a few found materials, he paints the world happy.

BlackCatTips has created a happy red carpet backdrop for the event so you can snap and share photos with your friends.

Eley
Stephanie Eley who simply goes by her last name Eley, is a local commercial and conceptual photographer who specializes in portraiture. She has a Masters degree from Savannah College of Art and Design and is currently on the Board of Directors for Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP). A staple of her work is rooted in the content created for humanity by bringing awareness to socio-political issues within our community. Her eye is drawn to dramatic lighting that emphasizes both the subject and their environment, allowing her to rejuvenate the traditional take on portraiture. During the Hambidge Auction, Eley will be using this approach with our guests, photographing them in ever-changing compositions to create a series of photographs which afterward will be exhibited online at the Hambidge website as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Fly on a Wall
Fly on the Wall is an idea house that presents and supports innovative performance. Their work thrives on artists of all backgrounds coming together to create art that lives at the junction of wit, risk, and meaningful experiences. Fly on a Wall shifts audiences perspectives by creating an interface of artistic mediums that is guided by a strong theatrical sensibility and an extensive movement vocabulary. Since their inception in 2014 Fly on a Wall has created a body of work which includes multimedia performance, installation, and dance for film.

For the Hambidge Auction, Fly on a Wall presents Prism III and Nymph.

In Prism III, a collaboration with OkCello, Fly on a Wall artists Nicole Johnson, Nathan Griswold, Sean Ngueyn-Hilton, and Jimmy Joyner perform on an unsteady platform suspended by harp strings, showinging bodies in communication via unstable and constantly shifting frequencies. The work looks at relationships that are constantly navigating forces, both physical and unseen. It is simultaneously a performance and a practice of negotiating bodies, gravity, and uncertainty in an ever changing environment.

Nicholas Goodly’s Nymph is a series of gestures and short phrases set the entrance of The Works. Based on the elemental mythological beings, three dancers will play with the ideas of traditional masculine and feminine signifiers and morph them into new iconographic shapes and dynamic movement with communal sensibility and thoughtfulness.

Julia Hill
Julia Hill is an Atlanta based sculptor and Hambidge Fellow with a strong interest in salvaged materials and the natural world. Her work incorporates many genres, including performance, installation, puppetry, metal fabrication, carpentry, ceramics, drawing and painting. Her large-scale puppets have been performed at The High Museum, The World of Coca-Cola, The Atlanta Zoo, The Hambidge Center, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and beyond. Julia enjoys working collaboratively and facilitating large-scale creative visions with other artists and organizations, as well as hosting skill share sessions and leading a wide variety of creative hands-on workshops for all ages. For the Hambidge Auction, Julia and a team of friends will present an interactive forest made of cardboard and detritus. Otherworldly masks inspired by the forest will be for sale within the woods.

LXXX YOU
LXXX YOU is a rotating group of artists and friends founded by Mike Stasny and George Long. Prompted by party motifs and parodying human life, LXXX YOU’s performance and installation work lampoon’s social experiences by inviting viewers into a surreal world. For this year’s Hambidge auction LXXX YOU requests the pleasure of your company in FAR•RA•GO - a giant inflatable serving as both a projection screen and room presenting unearthly environments. This collection of escapist realities is complimented by hyper-real costumed DJ’s with random characters and alternate identities.

OkCello
OkCello’s music integrates cello, live-sound-looping and improvisation on original compositions, which collide classical with jazz, EDM, reggae and funk. His songs are deeply emotive and narrative, complementing one another like short stories within a collection. Though dealing with grave matters, Resolve is an uplifting album which builds on the musical rebirth that began with OkCello’s debut album, 2015’s Liminal, which established him as a pioneer of electronic and experimental string music in the United States.

Amanda Grae Platner
Amanda Grae Platner is an Atlanta-based artist with a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work explores discipline, the act of continuing to persevere amidst challenge. Her practice focuses on painting and endurance-related performance. For the Hambidge Auction, Amanda will be creating an interactive painting performance. As she works through physical restraint, you’re invited to be part of the painting process.

Carl Rainey
A self-taught artist, Carl Rainey began his education with engineering graphics classes, but quickly discovering a love of making art. Throughout most of his working life, he maintained two identities - that of an artist and of an engineer. Now in retirement, Carl focuses on his artwork, but his engineer training has made a lasting and valuable impact. His Nebula Series is about looking for meaning and beauty in iconographic moving shapes and a variety of changing color patterns over time. The iconography comes from an interest in science and astronomy, and the influence of images of Mayan, Inca, American Indian, and Middle Eastern civilizations that Carl encountered during childhood.

PATRONS

DIAMOND PATRON
Lucinda Bunnen

GOLD PATRONS
Margaret Anthony & Lee Echols + Susan & Ron Antinori + Lillian Giornelli + Anonymous

SILVER PATRONS
Pat & Jim Durrett + Wanda S. Hopkins + Kay & Jim Polk + Lynn Pollard + Paula Francis Rogers + Marcia Weber + Kathy & David Williams + Dina Woodruff

BRONZE PATRONS
Robin Aiken & Bill Bolen + Diane & Kent Alexander + Lyn & Rick Asbill + Lee & Carter Bailey + Helen Ballard + Jennifer & Scott Bates + Michael Bishop & Shane Thomas + Louise & Peter Bray + Anna & Fuller Callaway + Lucinda & Bob Chapman + Sherry & Jeff Cohen + Cherrylion Sculpture Studio + Margaret & Dallas Denny + Carol & Jim Fleter + Alecia Adair-Foltz & Doug Foltz + Nancy & Gene Hooff + Caroline Howell + Judy & Scott Lampert + Brenda Locke + Bari & Russell Love + Rosemary M. Magee + Eileen Millard + Jenny Miller & Ben Findley + Kayla & Rob Osborne + Amy Phuong & Kerry O'Brate + Adrian & Jimmy Pressley + Vida Reklaitis + Kirk Rich + Karen & Clay Rolader + Brad Stephenson + Dot Stoller + Anne & David Tracht + Barb & Thom Williams + Woodie & Steve Wisebram

COPPER PATRONS
Irene Aronin + Louis Corrigan + Jesica Eames + Martha Iris Eskew + Greg Head + Ann Johnson + Beth Jones + Mitchell A. Klink + Julia Knight + Marianne Lambert + Gordon Mansergh + Saundra A Robinson + Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel + Debby Stockton

Hambidge 2019 Art Auction + Masquerade Bash